Criticism grows for Trump’s assailing of Muslim vet’s family
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Khizr Khan, father of fallen U.S. Army Capt. Humayun S. M. Khan and his wife Ghazala spoke on July 28, during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
WASHINGTON » Angry and anxious, Republican lawmakers and veterans groups hastened to disavow Donald Trump’s repeated criticism of a bereaved military family today, but the GOP presidential nominee refused to back down. He complained anew that he had been “viciously attacked” by the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army captain who was killed in Iraq.
Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war, led the charge, saying Trump did not have “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.” The Veterans of Foreign Wars, the nation’s oldest and largest veterans organization, called Trump out of bounds for tangling with Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed in 2004.
“Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” VFW leader Brian Duffy said.
Democratic President Barack Obama chimed in, too, addressing the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta. He said of families who have lost family members in the military service: “No one has given more to our freedom and our security than our Gold Star families. … They represent the very best of our country.”
A growing chorus of GOP lawmakers chastised Trump for sparring with the Khans, who appeared at the Democratic convention on behalf of Hillary Clinton. But like McCain, none revoked his support of the GOP nominee in the White House campaign.
In an emotional appearance at last week’s convention, Khizr Khan criticized Trump for proposing to temporarily freeze the entry of foreign Muslims into the U.S. and accused him of making no sacrifices for his country. The billionaire businessman challenged that assertion and also implied Ghazala Khan’s religion prevented her from speaking. On Monday, he tweeted that “Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same.”
In his first rally after the controversy blew up, Trump spoke at length and took several questions at a town hall rally in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday — never once mentioning the Khans. Nor did he mention them at a Monday night rally in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
But when asked about Khizr Khan on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Trump responded, “I guess it’s part of my life.”
“His son died 12 years ago,” Trump added. “If I were president, his son wouldn’t have died, because I wouldn’t have been in the war, if I was president back then.”
His running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, was confronted at an event in Nevada by a woman who said her son serves in the U.S. Air Force. The woman asked Pence how he can tolerate what called Trump’s constant disrespect of American service members.
As the crowd jeered the woman, Pence tried to quiet them down. He called the Khans’ son “an American hero” and said, “We cherish his family.”
For some of Trump’s allies, the dispute is just the latest example of a troubling pattern: The real estate mogul hitting back at perceived slights or insults, regardless of the political implications. He has stunned rivals with his ability to survive self-created controversies during the GOP primaries but faces a broader set of voters in the general election.
Indeed, some Republicans said privately that it was the timing of this flare-up that had them on edge— the spectacle of their candidate tangling with a military family just three months before Election Day.
McCain was among several lawmakers — many facing re-election this fall — who distanced themselves from Trump’s comments.
Rep. Mike Coffman, a vulnerable Republican in a competitive Colorado district, said he was “deeply offended when Donald Trump fails to honor the sacrifices of all of our brave soldiers who were lost in that war.”
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt said, “My advice to Donald Trump has been and will continue to be to focus on jobs and national security and stop responding to every criticism whether it’s from a grieving family or Hillary Clinton.”
Trump advisers have spent months trying to help the political novice do just that. Aides say Trump often professes to understand the risks of fueling a controversy, but he can get drawn back.
“It’s just who he is,” said Stuart Jolly, a former campaign staffer and current national political director for the pro-Trump Great America PAC.
Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who has advised Trump, said, “He’ll have to learn to grow out of it.”
While Trump and his allies often blame the media for keeping controversies alive, the businessman himself often fans the flames. After winning the primary, he spent days criticizing a U.S. district court judge’s Mexican heritage. He also refused to disavow a campaign tweet about Clinton that appeared to feature the Star of David.
In spite of those storms, Trump remains in a close race for the White House with Clinton. And few Democrats appear ready to declare Trump’s criticism of Khan a turning point.
Democratic pollster Paul Maslin said that while “ninety-nine percent of me says this is devastating for Trump,” Clinton backers can’t assume that another few days of bad headlines will sink a candidate who “simply defies all natural laws of American politics.”
Thursday night, the Pakistan-born Khizr Khan told the story of his son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, and questioned whether Trump had ever read the Constitution. During the speech, Ghazala Khan stood quietly by his side.
Trump responded in an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” saying: “She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”
Asked Monday on MSNBC if Trump should apologize, Ghazala Khan said, “I don’t want to hear anything from him and I don’t want to say anything to him.”
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Buahahahahhahah.
He makes repugnant and cowardly fairly lofty goals.
Buahahahahhahah, Yes, Mr. Kahn has made “repugnant and cowardly fairly lofty goals” for himself and now must apologize to Mr. Trump for his statements. Pls read “The Hill” article by Charles Hurt directly answering the challenge of Ms Hillary and her campaign “using” Mr. Kahn and his family, including his son who has served honorably for the United States. Let’s see this story develop over time. It’s refreshing to have someone as Mr. Trump who will not fold under the Clinton, Democrat, and Press pressure. Eventually the truth does rise to the top. Similar to Ms Debbie?
How so, the sterling legal career, the Harvard graduate degrees,impeccable citizen, outstanding parents…..what else you got??
Ikefromeli, read Mr. Hurt’s article in the Hill? It was published yesterday. No question the Kahn’s are impeccable citizens and outstanding parents. What about Ms Hillary and her campaign?
This sounds about right..”Politicians like Hillary Clinton slice and dice people into racial and gender groups. Then they toot on all their little “dog whistles” to send all their little demographic pawns scurrying in various directions. That is how you wind up with Khizr Khan standing on stage beside his head-scarved wife, waving around the U.S. Constitution and distorting Donald Trump’s position on keeping radical Islamic terrorism at bay.”
The topic is Trump and his comments, you can find another article, if you paying attention, that have more of a nexus to the subject in which you are attempting to conflate.
And the fact that he is request contributor to Fox News contributor, Breitbart News contributor, tells me everything I need to know.
Mr. and Mrs. Khan DECIDED to go on national television and hurl a very public harpoon at Trump. In so doing, they politicized ~~ some might even say trivialized ~~ the death of their son in order to achieve a mean spirited political effect.
Having volunteered to crawl into this very public arena, they are entitled to scant sympathy for having discovered too late and to their dismay that the target of their attack is a counter puncher who loves the sting of battle.
In my opinion their heroic son deserved better than that from his parents.
I guess you missed the last sentence… Donald Trump’s position I’m elated that you know so now we must provide the information to the under educated.
Thos: So how is it any different than a few weeks ago when Pat Smith did the exact same thing with her son’s death?
Benghazi–Hillary lied and four men died..
Poidogs, Don Trump did not kill the Khan’s son.
By way of contrast Hillary’s reckless dereliction of duty – – in the face of NUMEROUS requests for beefed up CIA annex security – – and refusal to order up the needed support during the HOURS this battle raged, did in fact kill these four men.
Then to grind salt into the wound, four men died then Hillary lied. Not only that, she directed one of her subordinates to hit all the Sunday talk shows and REPEAT the lie. And when she met the grieving parents on the tarmac she repeated the lie AGAIN.
Then to make sure everyone understood the contempt she has for those she puts in harm’s way, she blurted out what she obviously believes is true: “What DIFFERENCE does it make?” Obviously it doesn’t make a bit of difference to her, such is her cold blooded serpent-like nature.
Try this:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/08/01/open-letter-to-mr-khizr-khan.html
You attacked Mr. Trump in front of a worldwide audience, yet you can’t understand the fact that he defends himself against attacks from you, Hillary Clinton and the left. What else is one to do sir?
We must live in a world of reality, not a world of denial, delusion and fantasy the Democrats inhabit every waking day of their lives.
Radical Islam is the enemy of everyone on this planet who believes in freedom and justice. Until it is destroyed, this nation must protect itself from enemies both foreign and domestic.
If you are smart, when grieving parents of a USA war hero speak out, you will first acknowledge their son is a hero. You then say something nice about the parents who came to this country legally to live as good Americans and to raise good children. Finally, you respectfully state your disagreements and objections to their politicizing the death of their son.
If you are a “jagoff,” you get into a hissy fight with the grieving parents in front of the whole world. You then see your party members turn against you. Finally, you lose.
Monkey, spot on.
$1,000,000 from India 2008
The subject of this story is that prominent Republicans disagree with Trump’s words. You keep avoiding the topic in front of you because you have no answer.
Prominent Republicans have never agreed with Mr Trump. How is Jeb doing or the other 15.
What was the lie these repugs keep talking about? What?
From Fox
An open letter to Mr. Khizr Khan
Dear Mr. Khan,
I, like millions of Americans saw your speech at the DNC on Thursday night.
I wish to offer my sympathy for the death of your son, Captain Humayun Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq.
As a former US Army officer, and a veteran of the Gulf War, I can certainly understand the pain and anguish that you and your wife endure every day.
Your son died saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. As Jesus told his disciples, according to the Gospel of John, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Captain Khan is a hero. I am sure the soldiers he served with regard him as one. I know you and your wife do. Rest assured that millions of veterans regard your son as a hero as well.
To paraphrase from the Book of Ecclesiasticus, your son’s name liveth for evermore.
Your son made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, a country that was new to you and your family and one which you openly embraced and certainly love.
When you and your family arrived to America from Pakistan, you assimilated into our country. You adopted American ways, learned our history and apparently you even acquired a pocket Constitution along the way. Good for you sir.
But, there are many Muslims in America who not only have no desire to assimilate, but wish to live under Sharia Law.
That is unacceptable to Americans. There is only one law of the land. That is the U.S. Constitution.
As you well know, Mr. Khan, we live in violent times, dangerous times. Muslim madmen from ISIS and other radical Jihadi groups are on a murder and terror spree across the globe.
Your religion of peace, Islam, is anything but that in 2016. That is a fact that is confirmed every time a Muslim shoots, bombs, beheads and tortures innocent men, women and children. This does not mean that every Muslim is a terrorist, but most terrorists, sir, are indeed Muslims.
A Muslim terrorist attack has become the sign of the times.
Regardless of what the feckless, naïve, leftist ideologue Barack Obama and his dimwitted colleagues John Kerry, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel state, the United States and the West are at war with Radical Islam. It is the job of the president of the United States to protect his nation from all enemies; foreign and domestic. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama romanticizes Islam and refuses to accept reality, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people across the world.
Groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda have one goal, the complete destruction of the Judeo-Christian culture, our religions and our way of life.
Many Americans have families that have been here for decades, even centuries. Many families like mine have relatives who fought in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm. Some families have relatives who fought in the American Revolution.
We don’t plan on letting our country be devoured by Muslim maniacs. We are Americans sir, and not unarmed, socialist European zombies. We will do what is necessary to protect the United States. While many Democrats and liberals see the world through rose colored glasses, conservatives understand that there is good and evil in this world. Evil must be destroyed before it destroys us.
Strong measures, wartime measures, must be taken to protect this country from those that wish to annihilate us and our way of life.
Mr. Trump’s plan to temporarily halt immigration from Muslim countries that are known to either support terrorism or harbor terrorist groups is not only pragmatic, but indeed it is constitutional. It is the constitutional duty of the president of the United States to protect this nation.
There is simply no way to vet hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees from war zones like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Europe is being destroyed because reckless leaders like Angela Merkel have opened the continent’s doors to a flood of over one million undocumented Muslims arriving with nothing more than a bad attitude and a haversack of Jihad.
Do you think Americans are stupid? While the left lives in a dream world, the right does not. Mr. Trump understands the threat to his nation and the threat, sir, is not from Swedish Lutherans named Anna and Lars. The threat, sir, is from radical Islam.
How in God’s name are U.S. immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of a 22-year-old Syrian man? It is impossible. You know it is impossible.
How in God’s name are U.S. immigration authorities supposed to know the true intentions of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and thousands of other sundry Muslims who wish to arrive on our shores?
It is impossible. You know it is impossible.
Whether you, your wife, the Muslim world and millions of Democrats are offended by Mr. Trump’s realistic view of the world is irrelevant.
Whether you, your wife and son would have been prohibited from emigrating from Pakistan to America under Mr. Trump’s wartime plan is irrelevant. The security of this great land supersedes your desires and the desires of others who wish to come here now. The United States of America has no obligation to open its doors in order to placate foreigners and liberals in our government.
To adopt any other course but Mr. Trump’s would be a cause for further endangering the lives of Americans every day. That, sir, is unacceptable.
You attacked Mr. Trump in front of a worldwide audience, yet you can’t understand the fact that he defends himself against attacks from you, Hillary Clinton and the left. What else is one to do sir?
We must live in a world of reality, not a world of denial, delusion and fantasy the Democrats inhabit every waking day of their lives.
Radical Islam is the enemy of everyone on this planet who believes in freedom and justice. Until it is destroyed, this nation must protect itself from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Sincerely,
Ray Starmann
Excellent letter. This is a bit more background of Mr. Khan. How does one get Prime Time at the DNC.
This might explain.(BREITBART) Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that the mainstream media and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been using to criticize Donald J. Trump, has deep ties to the government of Saudi Arabia—and to international Islamist investors through his own law firm. In addition to those ties to the wealthy Islamist nation, Khan also has ties to controversial immigration programs that wealthy foreigners can use to essentially buy their way into the United States—and has deep ties to the “Clinton Cash” narrative through the Clinton Foundation.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/khans-deep-ties-to-saudis-clinton-foundation/#Ume8dtmW3kOcX7cQ.99
To try to defend Trump with Kahn is only digging the hole deeper and sway even more voters to vote for Hillary. The whole point is Kahn and his family are Americans FIRST who have a Muslim faith. To argue that all Muslims are the threat is the same argument used in the US in WW2 that ALL people with American citizens with Japanese ancestry could never be trusted because they would have innate loyalty to Imperial Japan. Dan Inouye and his generation proved that belief 100% WRONG. Trump and Starmann’s justification is based on PURE RACISM and that is why Trump is correctly identified as a racist. It is AMERICANS, which includes Christians, Muslims, etc. some that are NOT of Caucasian descent, who will help to identify, fight and defeat Islamic terrorists in the US and abroad. There is a BIG difference between a American who has a Muslim faith and an Islamic terrorist, however an arrogant racist bully cannot differentiate between the two and that is why would be a failure as President of the US. Trump and Starmann’s justification is the exact type of racist mentality that was INCORRECTLY applied in WW2 to justify the interment of Americans of Japanese Ancestry. This is not a about Clinton anymore. Maybe if Kasich was the Repub nominee and Rubio VP candidate, you might have a sympathetic ear regarding attacks on Hillary but Trump has managed to erase all focus on Hillary’s failures and direct all attention to Trumps’ arrogant and racist tendencies that he CANNOT control.
The whole point is Kahn and his family were used as pawns by the DNC. In related news, still no word from the national media over Hillary Clinton once again calling Patricia Smith, whose son was killed in Benghazi after being abandoned by Hillary, a liar during an interview on Fox News yesterday. Then again, you didn’t really expect honesty from the MSM, did you?
Great letter
Too much politicization. The Khan parents no doubt wanted to speak out against the man who believes ALL Muslims are probable terrorists or terrorism supporters. When Trump says he wants to keep ALL Muslims out of the country, the Khans (and other good people like them) want to speak up. That is the normal reaction.
The DNC was smart to let them speak their feelings, and to get a little political advantage out of it. That’s no different than when the RNC found the one gay dude who supports Trump and put him on stage to say “Who cares what restroom we use?”
Trump foolishly tried to turn it around to his political advantage. But insulting Gold Star parents? Jagoff. That term is not meant as a character attack, but as a plainly correct statement that Trump is self-destructing.
I agree with President Obama that Trump is in no way competent as either a businessman or a public official. He is an entertainer. He was rarely seriously questioned by media for months as he was so funny and outrageous. Now the Republicans are stuck with this fool. Republicans need to renounce him and run their own candidate.
A key lynchpin from the very respected intellectual and public policy perspective of the R party, leaves–sole reason–Donald Trump.
“I’ve been considering the switch for months. Ultimately, I could not abide the hateful rhetoric of Donald Trump and his complete lack of principles and conservative philosophy. I didn’t make this decision lightly—I have worked hard to make our party a place where all would feel welcome,” she told CNN. “But Trump has taken the GOP in another direction, and too many Republicans are standing by and looking the other way.” And after November? “If and when the party regains its sanity, I’ll be ready to return,” she said. “But until Republicans send a message to party leadership that this cannot stand, nothing will ever change.”
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Bradshaw joins a pair of prominent Republicans who have left the party in recent months: Strategist Mary Matalin switched her party affiliation to Libertarian in the spring, and George Will, the conservative columnist, announced his departure in June. Other Republicans are simply staying out of the election or have announced they won’t vote for Trump in November; the latter group includes Bush, who has said he won’t vote for Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
After Bush dropped out of the Republican primary in February, Bradshaw announced she’d be opening a bookstore in Tallahassee, Florida. She’s disappointed in how the race has shaken out since then, and she has criticized Bush’s fellow primary candidates for not speaking out against Trump along the way. If the race in Florida, where she lives, is tight, she plans to vote for Clinton, though they fundamentally disagree on many policy issues. Calling 2016 a “test,” Bradshaw told CNN, she “can’t look my children in the eye and tell them I voted for Donald Trump.”
This dike has a whole bunch of leaks and more and more people are bailing, not joining. Let me repeat that, more people from the R party are LEAVING, not joining—explain that to me???
SA wassup?
hey ike you fos
wait until you hear what the khan guy is about
he is in deeep with the clintons and saudi arabia
Definitive proof?? Crickets, chirp chirp…silence.
(BREITBART) Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that the mainstream media and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been using to criticize Donald J. Trump, has deep ties to the government of Saudi Arabia—and to international Islamist investors through his own law firm. In addition to those ties to the wealthy Islamist nation, Khan also has ties to controversial immigration programs that wealthy foreigners can use to essentially buy their way into the United States—and has deep ties to the “Clinton Cash” narrative through the Clinton Foundation.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/khans-deep-ties-to-saudis-clinton-foundation/#Ume8dtmW3kOcX7cQ.99
These are countries that we have both diplomatic and commerce related relations. Is your insinuation that Jesus because has ties to Saudia Arabia it becomes some sort of asterisk, both the Bush and Cheney families have life long relationships, business and otherwise wth said counties, so are we to become suspicious of them.
Just say it, and be done with it, you don’t like people of color do you??
C
Bush Jr was close friends with the bin Ladin family. When 9/11 tragedy occurred, he promptly loaded bin Ladin family members in US on plane to Saudi Arabia, without questioning them. Probably because his family held directorships in oil companies. Nothing personal, just $$$$$$$$$$$$$.
But where is Trump coming from? The first day the general campaign officially started, Don Jr was sent as surrogate to the Mississippi township where they celebrate the killing of three civil rights workers and maintains its right to state’s rights and white supremacy.
Guess Sarge 22 and his ilk are showing their true selves when they rail against blacks, Muslims, and civil rights in the name of white supremacy epitomized by Obama, a black American becoming President. Trump is the great white hope. That is his coded message to the great white supremacist, KKK-lovers of America. To them the stars and crossbars flies in their heart, not the Stars and Stripes.
What a completely mind boggling statement to make. This is probably your intention to draw attention to yourself. The fact of the matter is the Khan’s lost a son defending your right to act sophomoric and Donald Drumpf made disparaging remarks about Mrs. Khan and had the gall to compare his business dealings to the sacrifices this family and every other family who has lost a son or daughter in combat as the same. This type of rhetoric brings shame and dishonor to the entire Republican party for which he has been unanimously selected to represent as their choice to be President of the United States of America.
Donald Drumpf is a sociopath, incapable of humility. This is twice now that he has made disparaging comments regarding veterans. As a veteran of three war era’s, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan I certainly do not need a third to know who is not fit to be Commander in Chief of our military forces.
He hit Trump and Trump hit back. Fair fight. We don’t have a wimp like Romney this time around.
khan is a member of the muslim brotherhood..he worked for the clintons and the royal saudi family while in a law firm in washington dc..he deals in unvetted visas using the influence of the clintons..he and his law firm donated millions to the clintons..in other words he is a dnc clinton operative
auwe aswyhod
get akamai you guys
No loss, we don’t need traitors. She should join the DemocRats.
Funny thing is Les, folks at Heritage Foundarion, Cato Insitute or the National Review would literally just laugh at you…..and reject you on sight–that’s your party.
This, at long last, gives thinking Republicans the cover they need to publicly abandon Mr. Trump.
He can’t win, and this will help to make his loss as humiliating as possible.
Read their statements again. They are not abandoning him. Instead, they are clearly trying to score political points while still saying he’s their guy! Disgusting
Agreed that the ones who don’t think, and would rather abandon any dignity, will still vote for him. But this may actually prompt others – who actually do have a functioning brain and can think – to abandon him.
We can only hope
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He can’t win?
To ease your future torment, better start practicing NOW.
So now repeat 10 times and
V E R Y S L O W LY:
President-Elect Trump
Repeat slowly
“He won’t win”.
My sympathy is with the Khans for the loss of their son in Iraq. I am also sorry they were used as pawns by the DNC to attack Trump, which Mr. Khan did non-stop during his entire speech. I believe the Khan’s role in the convention was carefully arranged, choreographed and orchestrated by the DNC to elicited a response from Trump that could then be used against him. The DNC got what it wanted. Mr. Trump had every right to challenge what Mr. Khan said about him, but he should have chosen has words more carefully.
Sure he does. He also has the right to lose this election in a spectacular flaming fashion, and in the process, show himself to be an entirely undisciplined, unmeasured, unread, unsophisticated, effete coward of a man.
And, when you announce the poll results you need to see how many Democrats were polled compared to Republicans. Trump still holds an advantage with independents and more than a few Democrats are leaning to Trump.
You fail to recognize that there are fewer R voters….Initial polls conducted after the Democratic National Convention suggest that Hillary Clinton has received a convention bounce. In fact, it appears likely that Clinton’s bounce will exceed Donald Trump’s, which measured at 3 to 4 percentage points. Thus, Clinton will potentially exit the conventions in a stronger position than she entered them, perhaps also making up for some of the ground she lost to Trump earlier in July. This is pbvious good news for Clinton.
That is true, polls are like the tide in some respects. One poll, “http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-30/clinton-lead-over-trump-surges-after-reuters-tweaks-poll”, reveals an interesting perspective. As the GOP fall off from Trump mounts, and the defense oriented democratic voters breath a sigh of relief followed by a moment of introspection, the void created by both confusion and dissatisfaction should propel a surge towards, you know who.. So looking forward to the debates..
hahahahahahahahhahahahahah…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m impressed with your incisive comeback…
Contrary to your beliefs it has been widely reported Mr. Khan refused help from Hillary Clinton’s speech writers. He spoke without a teleprompter and wrote the speech himself. Only he knew what he was going to say.
How did this guy find the money to get out of Pakistan. How did he get a Prime Speaking time? That’s bs. The DNC wouldn’t allow him up on stage unless they knew exactly what he was going to say. Just goes to show you how crafted the other speakers were.
Poor lespark, stuck with making distractions and excuses. Brah, the problem here is that your man Chump has a thin skin. This leads him to pick fights he shouldn’t pick because he cannot win. All he needed to say was “I express my support for the Khan’s for the loss of their son in the service to our great country.” That’s all he needed to say and this thing would all go away and he would not look like a jerk. Les go bring up more talking points like the mother did not speak and all that other rubbish the Chumpsers are throwing out there. Just remember, the days to the election are counting down, and while Hillary is doing her thing, Chump is stuck throwing mud at a gold star family while the rest of the GOP just shakes their head in disgust.
They don’t know what Trump will say…..seems that’s a double standard??
(BREITBART) Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that the mainstream media and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been using to criticize Donald J. Trump, has deep ties to the government of Saudi Arabia—and to international Islamist investors through his own law firm. In addition to those ties to the wealthy Islamist nation, Khan also has ties to controversial immigration programs that wealthy foreigners can use to essentially buy their way into the United States—and has deep ties to the “Clinton Cash” narrative through the Clinton Foundation.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/khans-deep-ties-to-saudis-clinton-foundation/#Ume8dtmW3kOcX7cQ.99
Brah, this is how the Democrats roll.
To all those who defend Trump’s abhorrent comments (and to Trump himself), it is appropriate to quote Joseph Welch: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
To all those who find Trump’s comments abhorrent, read this:
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/289932-khizer-khan-was-tricked-into-smearing-donald-trump
“Politicians like Hillary Clinton slice and dice people into racial and gender groups. Then they toot on all their little “dog whistles” to send all their little demographic pawns scurrying in various directions. That is how you wind up with Khizr Khan standing on stage beside his head-scarved wife, waving around the U.S. Constitution and distorting Donald Trump’s position on keeping radical Islamic terrorism at bay.”
So Charles Hurt, the author of that article wants us to believe Khizr Khan was tricked into giving a speech at the convention? Did he even interview Mr. Khan or anyone in his family or circle of friends? Khan is a lawyer with an advanced degree from Harvard. I doubt Mr. Khan was tricked. He went in with an open heart and open eyes. Here’s an article from the NY Times with actual quotes from Mr. Khan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/us/elections/khizr-humayun-khan-speech.html?_r=0
and also from the Hindustan Times:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/khizr-khan-s-journey-from-pakistan-to-democratic-convention-spotlight/story-d4FaJfliGXM9VkKgtP9eyI.html
Mr Kahn’s statement was very sincere and heartfelt, “Trump is a BLACK SOUL”. All of you who are supporting Trump, have the same dark soul
People with “Dark Souls” do not want it pointed out, and are in denial
sarge22, the Republicans and Trump are the ones slicing, dicing and dividing groups. Place the blame where it belongs. Trump is divide and conquer, and I only I can do it. Hillary is together, we can do it.
I guess the loss of their son was all calculated?
Ronin, the Khans weren’t pawns. More like Clinton operatives.
(BREITBART) Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father that the mainstream media and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been using to criticize Donald J. Trump, has deep ties to the government of Saudi Arabia—and to international Islamist investors through his own law firm. In addition to those ties to the wealthy Islamist nation, Khan also has ties to controversial immigration programs that wealthy foreigners can use to essentially buy their way into the United States—and has deep ties to the “Clinton Cash” narrative through the Clinton Foundation.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/khans-deep-ties-to-saudis-clinton-foundation/#Ume8dtmW3kOcX7cQ.99
I’m not surprised. Meghan McCain said Donald Trump is a Barbarian. Genghis Kahn was a Barbarian. He tells it like it is. He says what people are thinking. The more repugnant the better. He’s connected with the people. We need a Man in the White House.
i thought you just said Megan is greats buds with Donald?
That was this morning. You need to keep up with the changes!
She was on The Five today beating up on Crooked Hilliary. She’s a Republican foremost. Being a barbarian is not necessarily a bad thing. Genghis Khan got the job done just like Donald will get the job done.
We don’t need a mealy mouse in the White House.
She hates trump….
“We need a Man in the White House.” I’ve been reading many of your comments over the past few weeks. Among many other distasteful and backwards things, you are very much a sexist.
And you need a woman—Among many other distasteful and backwards things, you are very much a sexist.
Thanks for reading my comments. I mean why waste your time?
It is important when reading these Republican comments to note who among them mentions Trump by name and who, like McConnell and Ryan, is too cowardly to do so.
You got that right. We don’t need mealy mouths like them around. Them and Crooked Hilliary.
now we know who the mongooses in the republiCON party are
trump/pence
all the way!
Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and Stalin were not mealy mouth MEN. Right wing fascists can do a lot to make life miserable for everyone and destroy everything around them.
But even those who DO mention him by name are quick to say he needs to stick to policy. They’re still falling in line behind him. That’s the sad reality. Trying to score points by saying the young man was a war hero, but then still voting for the idiot who feels the need to respond to anyone who disagrees with him.
Kahn crossed the line. He’s tied in with the Clintons. He made millions off of this connection and donates to the Clinton Foundation. He’s made out.
He is made out….???
…but none of these prominent Republicans has withdrawn their endorsement.
Companies are moving out of America.
McDonalds hiring.
lespark and thos, deflect, distract, the modus operandi of the Republicans and Tea Party, from addressing the real issues in this country
The real issue is Vector Control. They are running wild.
sarge22, the real issue is hoping to be, right wing fascist tyrants
The real issue is the right wing fascist tendencies of men like lespark and thos. Their rhetoric is much like the right wing fascist rhetoric of the 1930s in Nazi Germany, Italy and Spain. By the way, these countries were Christian countries, and then went on to commit terrible atrocities against their fellow men
Les, not what you do for a living or if you even have investments. But if we’re to go almost to the day Obama took office til today, my net worth almost tripled–why is that??
Clinton Cash? Trump U? Maybe you started off with nothing? 3 times 0 = 0? I don’t know or care.
Caterpillar Tractor, Nabisco announce massive layoffs.
Crooked Hillary announces Burger King hiring.
If Crooked Hillary prevails, she would be well advised to fly the Burger King flag above the White House to convey a long overdue admission: “Home of the whopper”.
Or KFC flag.. “Chicken Coop?
You guys always brighten up my day. Thank you. Some of our detractors are equally amusing. Utter nonsense.
lespark and thos, the global economy has been slowing for many years, Caterpillar has a large global market, as well as other international corporations, and are seeing their sales and revenues decline. If corporations see their is not enough demand for their products and services, they end up laying people off. Blaming Hillary for the condition of the global economy is just more Republican rhetoric.
Crooked Hillary announces Burger King hiring all because of the new hot dog. How ya figgah?
Vector, Crooked Hillary is saying she’s hiring. Well start hiring.
Flint Michigan used to make cars and Had the best drinking water.
Now its don’t drink the water in Flint.
Karen Weaver (D) Mayor.
The governor of Michigan is Republican
You do realize that the way Michigan funds water projects is via the Governors office and that the governor is a Republican—–duuuuhhhhhhhh.
Another cricket cricket situation–stunned awkward silence when confronting with facts.
As time goes by, I think Les might be an operative from the Ds; no one could be wrong that much of the time and say the utterly inane things, that come out of his mouth.
THE UTILITIES DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUPPLY AND MAINTENANCE OF ALL WATER AND SEWER SERVICES WITHIN THE CITY OF FLINT.
Btw, looking for a job? You are not cutting it as a surrogate for Crooked Clinton. Crooked Hillary is hiring.
Jack in the Box. Under Obama you tripled your net worth? From $10 to $30?.
You have a problem.
Snyder told the panel at a contentious hearing that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality repeatedly gave him assurances that water being piped in from the Flint River was safe, when in reality it had dangerous levels of lead.
But Cummings said the governor should have done more to push back against state experts. The committee has obtained documents “showing that people all around the governor were sounding the alarms, but he either ignored them or didn’t hear them,” Cummings said, citing emails showing that Snyder’s top legal adviser warned in October 2014 that Flint should “get back on the Detroit (water) system” as soon as possible “before this thing gets too far out of control.”
The warning came a year before Snyder says he became aware of the lead contamination on Oct. 1, 2015.
“The governor’s fingerprints are all over this” crisis, Cummings said. “His Department of Environmental Quality. His Department of Health and Human Services. His inner circle of top aides. His press staff. And of course the emergency managers the governor put in charge of Flint.”
0h, why do own a brownstone in NYC and a home in Hawai’i? My federal taxes paid last year were about 125k, can you figure out how much gross income you would have to make for that amount?
Working for the Clinton Foundation federal taxes paid last year were about $125k on income of $5 million. That’s how the Clinton’s roll.
Lespark, Flint switched back to the Detroit water system. It is now as good as ever.
and guess what?
this guy khan he is a crook! he has deep ties with the clintons foundation and saudi arabia royal family and he uses influence with the clintons/obama to bring in wealthy arabs through the visa program. and it will come out that he is a money launderer funneling money to radical islamist groups
how about dat? his law firm in washington donated millions, millions! to the clinton foundation. and you know the clintons they no nothing for free. no wonder trump call her lying crooked hillary”
auwe aswyhod
hey come on all you hiLIARyous lovers. lets hear about the crook hillary
she going jaul!
LOCK HER UP!
auwe aswhyod
deepdiver311, you are adespicable fabricator of lies.
Lock her up.
For Trump to call Clinton a crook is like “pot calling the kettle black”. And please give us your source for your claims against this family? Attacking the family of a fallen hero is doing a disservice to them much like the way Trump did.
This sounds about right..”Politicians like Hillary Clinton slice and dice people into racial and gender groups. Then they toot on all their little “dog whistles” to send all their little demographic pawns scurrying in various directions. That is how you wind up with Khizr Khan standing on stage beside his head-scarved wife, waving around the U.S. Constitution and distorting Donald Trump’s position on keeping radical Islamic terrorism at bay.”
go read brietbart.com
The entire Republican party is out there running around like crazy ants looking for cover, but there is no cover…
The gutless obsequious panty-waists masquerading as the GOP have been running scared, looking for cover for at least a decade.
That is the secret to the success of Don Trump: he won’t cower like some terrified little mouse. And that drives the ‘establishment’ wing wild with fury.
I have long prayed for a REAL Republican who loves a street brawl who would unleash a long overdue RINO-cide campaign for the soul of the party. Trump is the answer to my prayer.
thos, God does not answer prayers to the devil
Check out what Dr Ben Carson has to say about HiLIARy and the devil….Dr Ben Carson raised some eyebrows Tuesday night, when he veered off his prepared remarks at the Republican National Convention to compare Hillary Clinton to Lucifer, by way of a long tangent about the late community organizer Saul Alinsky. Given the opportunity to explain himself the next day, Carson eagerly defended his thesis about their axis of evil by doubling down on the Satan-Clinton connection….http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/ben-carson-clinton-lucifer
WASHINGTON — Few political consultants have had a client fail quite as spectacularly as Paul Manafort’s did in Ukraine in the winter of 2014.
President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who owed his election to, as an American diplomat put it, an “extreme makeover” Mr. Manafort oversaw, bolted the country in the face of violent street protests. He found sanctuary in Russia and never returned, as his patron, President Vladimir V. Putin, proceeded to dismember Ukraine, annexing Crimea and fomenting a war in two other provinces that continues.
Mr. Manafort was undaunted.
Within months of his client’s political demise, he went to work seeking to bring his disgraced party back to power, much as he had Mr. Yanukovych himself nearly a decade earlier. Mr. Manafort has already had some success, with former Yanukovych loyalists — and some Communists — forming a new bloc opposing Ukraine’s struggling pro-Western government.
And now Mr. Manafort has taken on a much larger campaign, seeking to turn Donald J. Trump into a winning presidential candidate.
With Mr. Putin’s Russia, and its interference in Ukraine, becoming a focus of the United States presidential campaign, Mr. Manafort’s work in Ukraine has come under scrutiny — along with his business dealings with prominent Ukrainian and Russian tycoons.
After disclosures of a breach of the Democratic National Committee’s emails — which American intelligence officials have linked to Russian spies — both men are facing sharp criticism over what is seen as an unusually sympathetic view of Mr. Putin and his policies toward Ukraine. That view has upended decades of party orthodoxy toward Russia, a country that the previous Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, called “our No. 1 geopolitical foe.”
On Sunday, Mr. Trump even echoed Mr. Putin’s justification of the annexation of Crimea, saying the majority of people in the region wanted to be part of Russia, remarks that were prominently featured on state news channels in Moscow.
Did Trump ever take civics? How about an actual foreign affairs advisor, in lieu of a mercenary, I take money from literally anybody, to make the, a king??
An outstanding weekend for Trump:
1. he lies about receiving a letter from the NFL
2. he lies about receiving an invitation from the Koch brothers
3. he insults a war hero and his family
4. he denies that Putin has entered the Ukraine, reveals that he is deeply confused about Crimea, and then uses Putin’s logic to defend Russian actions in Crimea
5. continues his refusal to release his tax returns
Yup…and you ever notice when he is questioned about something he always ” I hear people saying” or “I don’t know if it is true, but…”. He gets all info from watching TV and tweeting, moron.
I forgot to include in my list above another Trump lie from this past weekend:
6. Trump lied about his campaign’s involvement in deleting from the Republican Party platform a commitment to provide arms to Ukraine so that it can combat pro-Russian separatists. By a vote of 348 to 48 the Republican-controlled House passed Resolution 162 of the 114th Congress, which concluded, “Resolved, That the House of Representatives strongly urges the President to fully and immediately exercise the authorities provided by Congress to provide Ukraine with lethal defensive weapon systems to enhance the ability of the people of Ukraine to defend their sovereign territory from the unprovoked and continuing aggression of the Russian Federation.” Trump apparently disagrees with 348 House members. Meanwhile, his campaign manager has refused to confirm or deny that he remains on the payroll of a pro-Putin politician in the Ukraine.
and to make his lie about killing the anti-Putin measure in the Republican platform even more ridiculous, Trump’s defense was that he has no idea what is in the Republican platform.
You forgot to include these lies…Liar in Chief on Fox in case you missed it…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLvgO1V0k7k
Terrifying that Trump may be our next President!
Mexico beckons as does Havana, Caracas, and Dakar.
Rest assured, you won’t be missed.
thos, your posts would not be missed
Tut tut!
Fess up.
You’d be at sixes and sevens without a dose of my shimmering brilliance to light your path.
…AKA the yellow line in the snow.
I’m sick and tired of people turning against Trump even though I am a Democrat etc….it seems every politician and special interest group etc. has voiced antagonisms against Trump and you know what…….I HOPE THE HECK TRUMP WINS THE GENERAL ELECTION……Hillary “the liar ” Clinton must be basking in joy with everybody speaking out against Trump yet the Polls show that she has a very slight lead, despite this latest controversy with Trump against the Khans, but I was hoping SANDERS would get the nomination but so be it….so Clinton wins the Presidency and lacks the character and integrity of a leader…..How can she stand up there and say she wants to be President with a straight face……you should all read the comments from the secret service personnel assigned to her….none wants that assignment as she is arrogant, condescending, and a shrew always ordering and telling people what to do in a very loud and shrill voice like she is the Queen etc……very interesting insights…but then what other alternative do we have…….
I know, conservatives like to complain that Mr. Obama has overstepped his authority by, say, using administrative discretion to delay some provisions of the Affordable Care Act. But let’s be serious: no non-crazy person, even on the right, thinks that this president is acting like a dictator, or that the woman he wants to succeed him would threaten basic liberty. On the other side, anyone watching her opponent has to be very, very worried about his authoritarian streak.
The bottom line is that even if you don’t like Mrs. Clinton or what she stands for, it’s hard to see how you could view her possible victory with horror. And it’s hard to see how you could view Mr. Trump’s possible victory any other way.
How, then, can rational Republicans justify supporting Mr. Trump, or even remaining neutral, which is in effect giving him half a vote?
For rank-and-file Republicans, it’s presumably about feelings. Having spent so many years denouncing Democrats in general and Mrs. Clinton in particular, they have a hard time admitting that someone else could be much, much worse. But democracy isn’t about making a statement, it’s about exercising responsibility. And indulging your feelings at a time like this amounts to dereliction of your duty as a citizen.
And whatever one may say about ordinary voters, the real sinners here are Republican leaders — people like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell — who are actively supporting a candidate they know poses a danger to the nation.
It’s not hard to see why they’re doing this. Opposing their party’s nominee, no matter how awful he is, would probably end up being a career killer.
But there are times when you’re supposed to put such considerations aside. The willingness of some people who know better to support Donald Trump is understandable; it’s also despicable.
Donald Drumpf reminds me more and more of Sarah Palin. What’s scary is even she is looking fairly intelligent compared to this man.
Think that this weekend is not having an ill effect???
Just reported, An online survey conducted by RABA Research on Friday found that Clinton has surged ahead of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, securing support from 46 percent of respondents to Trump’s 31 percent. This 15-percentage-point lead marks one of the largest the former secretary of state has ever held over her GOP opponent. In a RABA survey conducted immediately after the Republican convention two weeks ago, Clinton held a 5-percentage-point lead, while surveys from other polling organizations had Trump even with or slightly leading Clinton.
15 percent…..les,,Keoni, kuro, sarge…et al………..y’all must be so proud!
One cannot in anyway attribute the following to D operatives, it’s an entirely rather conservative entity.
(CNN)The Veterans of Foreign Wars blasted Donald Trump Monday and a group of Gold Star families of fallen service members demanded he apologize for comments about the parents of a slain Muslim U.S. solider.
“Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” said Brian Duffy, who was elected July 27 to lead the nation’s oldest and largest major war veterans organization.
“There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed,” added Duffy, the national commander of the near 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Auxiliary.
“Giving one’s life to nation is the greatest sacrifice, followed closely by all Gold Star families, who have a right to make their voices heard.”
The VFW statement came just hours after a group of Gold Star families wrote to Trump.
“Your recent comments regarding the Khan family were repugnant and personally offensive to us,” wrote the group of 11 “Gold Star” families, who are those who have lost a family member in war. “We feel we must speak out and demand you apologize to the Khans, to all Gold Star families, and to all Americans for your offensive, and frankly anti-American comments.”
The letter, published Monday on VoteVets.org, comes amid a chorus of criticism in response to Trump’s burgeoning feud with the Khan family, which began after Khizr Khan, the father of slain Army Cpt. Humayun Khan, delivered a forceful condemnation of Trump in a speech at the Democratic National Convention. Trump responded by criticizing his wife, Ghazala Khan, for her silence during his speech and suggesting she wasn’t allowed to speak.
“Ours is a sacrifice you will never know. Ours is a sacrifice we would never want you to know,” the families wrote in the letter.
The group hit Trump for questioning why Khan’s wife didn’t speak at the convention, writing: “When you question a mother’s pain, by implying that her religion, not her grief, kept her from addressing an arena of people, you are attacking us. When you say your job building buildings is akin to our sacrifice, you are attacking our sacrifice.”
And the group rejected the idea that Trump was being unfairly criticized for his remarks out of “political correctness.”
Oh, the shame, you draft dodge, you have never read the constitution in its entirely, and you get a boldly worded rebuke from the leading entity on behalf of foreign war vets………..beyond shameful.
Thanks for the updates. Trump must be doing great otherwise you wouldn’t be wasting your valuable time on this sixth grade message board. Keep pounding on that keyboard. Check out the Liar in Chief on Fox in case you missed it…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLvgO1V0k7k
Your man is only down 15 percent, and look for the op-Ed piece, of the ultra conservative National Review takes out against Trump…happy reading.
This is all of a piece with the long awaited and much desired RINO-cide battle for the soul of the GOP.
Get some, Donald!
NO PRISONERS!
You know us under educated don’t read that stuff. That’s like listening to Jim Cramer about the stock market Only down 15 percent after all that trash talking not bad. Write that down as the low point and it’s all up from here. The sun is out the storm is pau.
Just look at all the hate and vitriol these comments are full of… on either side. Is this really the person you want leading our nation next??? Democrat or Republican – WAKE UP and realize what our future with this man as our president would be. For the first time in my life, I’m scared and very scared for the future of my children. May cooler heads on both sides prevail, or our country is in trouble.
Agreed. However, I don’t see Hillary as a necessarily better choice.
“For the first time in my life, I’m scared and very scared for the future of my children.”….Where were you the past eight years?
Another in a long line (and this line is getting awfully long!!) of republican entities turning against Donald Trump.This time the ultra-conservative National Review.
A pattern emerges. Donald Trump is a habitual liar, and the thing about habitual liars is that they lie habitually. In a testy exchange with former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Trump insisted that he’d never gone bankrupt, and that claims to the contrary are a lie. That’s the Trump magic right there: Lying about your business history is one thing, lying that your critics are lying about it is another.
Trump has a peculiar way of speaking about bankruptcy: He has a deep aversion to the word itself. He speaks of “putting a company into a chapter” without ever answering the implicit question: “Chapter of what? Moby-Dick?” The answer, of course, is the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, to which Trump has taken recourse at least four times over the course of his business career. The chapter in question is the famous Chapter 11, which applies to business bankruptcies. Trump proudly insists that he never has had recourse to Chapter 13, the personal bankruptcy code. This is his apparent justification for saying that he’s never been bankrupt. But of course one of the purposes of Chapter 11 bankruptcy is to keep men such as Donald Trump out of Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
Donald Trump Making Whining Great Again Trump’s first bankruptcy was in 1991 after he borrowed a stupidly irresponsible amount of money to finance that monument to excruciatingly bad taste known as the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. Trump is such a good manager that the casino’s slot machines began failing during its first week of business. Never one to let reality stand in the way of his confidence, Trump had financed the $1 billion project largely with junk bonds, which meant very high interest payments. Trump did not make enough money to meet his interest payment and so was forced into bankruptcy. His ownership of the casino was diluted, and he ended up having to give back 500 slot machines to the company that had provided them. RELATED: Donald Trump:
Thin-Skinned Tyrant Trump himself was on the hook for nearly $1 billion in the deal, according to the New York Times, a sum that exceeded his net worth. He was forced to sell a fair amount of his personal property, including a yacht, as well as the failing air-shuttle service he’d been attempting to launch for some time. As Boston bankruptcy attorney Ted Connolly put it, Trump used the bankruptcy proceedings to negotiate away his personal liabilities while leaving the business saddled with debt. Unsurprisingly, the casino endured further financial problems, including bankruptcy. Trump’s ownership stake was diluted steadily, and he eventually was removed from the board. By the time of the casino’s most recent bankruptcy — which is to say, the bankruptcy it currently operates in — Trump could plausibly say that it wasn’t really his business any more, in spite of the fact that his name and face are all over it.
Trump’s second bankruptcy came with his acquisition of New York City’s Plaza Hotel. The great dealmaker did essentially the same thing with the Plaza that he had done with the Taj Mahal: He borrowed too much money, at rates he could not afford. And in much the same way that he has contemplated putting his abortion-loving sister on the Supreme Court, he made his then-wife, Ivana, president of the Plaza. Once again, Trump was unable to make his debt-service payments. Once again, he lost much of his ownership stake — 49 percent went to Citibank — and, once again, he found himself having to run for the doors as parties with deeper pockets and more managerial acumen took over to clean up his mess.
In the case of the Plaza, that was CDL Hotels International, of Singapore, and Prince Walid bin Talal, of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi prince laments that he was twice forced to “bail out” Donald Trump, whom he describes as a “disgrace to the United States.” The Saudi prince laments that he was twice forced to ‘bail out’ Donald Trump, whom he describes as a ‘disgrace to the United States.’ In 2004, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, a holding company for various Trump properties including the Taj Mahal and a riverboat-gambling company in Gary, Ind., went into bankruptcy, having acquired $1.8 billion in debt while raising only $130 million through an initial public stock offering. Same story: Trump had borrowed too much money, at a rate he could not afford (15 percent, in fact, which lets you know how credit-worthy the market deems Trump to be), and once again he was obliged to give up most of his ownership stake. Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts was reorganized as Trump Entertainment Resorts . . . which promptly went bankrupt, filing for Chapter 11 protection in 2009. (That’s right: Trump, who wants to be president of these United States, was in bankruptcy that recently.)
Too much debt at an interest rate that he couldn’t afford to pay? Check. Loss of ownership? Check. Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, both resigned from the board just before the bankruptcy filing, inviting unkind rodential-nautical metaphors. It is no wonder that he’s had his greatest success renting his name to Macy’s and pretending to run a business on television rather than actually running a business. MORE DONALD TRUMP WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE THAT DONALD TRUMP IS A ‘REAL’ CONSERVATIVE? IF TRUMP TURNS OFF MILITARY VOTERS — HE WON’T HAVE MANY GROUPS LEFT IN HIS CORNER DEAR HILLARY CLINTON FANS, AMBITION ISN’T ‘SACRIFICE’ — IT’S NOT EVEN ‘SERVICE’
So, those are the bankruptcies about which Donald Trump is lying. Trump also is lying about self-funding his campaign: Like any other politician, most of his money comes from donors. That famous fund-raising for veterans? The money is going into Trump’s personal foundation. Trump has repeatedly failed his business partners and lied about it. He has lied about self-funding his campaign. He has lied to his wives and his family. Given that he received a low-risk draft status because of a health condition that he does not have, he almost certainly lied to the military he seeks to command. The thing about habitual liars is, they lie habitually. If you’re voting for Trump because you think he’s a straight shooter, you’re a bigger sucker than those chumps losing money on both sides of the table in Atlantic City.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431420/donald-trumps-2016-debate-lies-he-went-bankrupt
Jeezo Beezo, get a life.
And a Clinton supporter calling Trump a habitual liar is rich. I watched her Fox News interview Sunday and ran out of fingers and toes counting her unblinking, blatantly obvious lies about Benghazi, about what she said to the parents of those killed, about what the FBI director said in unmistakable terms about her mishandling of classified in the email scandal. The woman can not get a truth out of her mouth. And when she’s not lying she’s deflecting , blame shifting, and flat out obfuscating the facts.
Trump is an accident waiting to happen. Clinton is a lying,corrupt, incompetent disaster waiting to happen.
Clinton is a lying, corrupt, incompetent disaster that has ALREADY happened.
Her tenure at State ~~ where everything she touched turned to [scatological term redacted]~~ is but a foretaste of the disaster that awaits us if she succeeds to the Oval Office. She is a lying, corrupt, evil doer who will lay her bone deep, slashing cat o nine tails on our country without surcease or mercy.
Having served at the altar of Saul Aulinsky ~~ who dedicated his book to Satan ~~she has been nursing grievances and marinating in hatred for the last 40 years, salivating for the chance to “get even” with the swarms of people who populate her voluminous enemies list.
The article was from a conservative writer, from a conservative publication…..the fall starts. Again, this was not from a D or even independent source,,but a bonafide conservative iconic entity. Today you are down 15%, besides it being a large number, now, the R party has to protect against down stream races.
Experts will tell you at 9% there is such momentum, that the House becomes legitimately in jeopardy. That means a total sweep plus, the crucial 3 seats on the Supreme Court. Look for Rs, as you have already seen,,start pulling public support (they have already done so privately. Folks, it is mostly down hill from here.
Cut the conservative rubbish.It hasn’t worked in the past and isn’t working now. Let’s hear something positive about lying crooked HiLIARy if that’s possible.
Maybe, but the polls don’t yet reflect it. As for writers, read the liberal writer Maureen Dowd on Clinton. Look at Clinton’s unfavorables. She’s the worst candidate dems have fielded in decades. The race to the bottom is nose and nose.
Winston, what are you talking about?? A poll released today had Trump,trailing today by 15 percent another by 9. Look in the coming days and you will see most of the polls in double digit leads for Clinton, again, 9 percent is a dangerous inflection point, as ALL races become at risk.
Any Rs want to comment–Les, Sarge, Thos, Winston, et al…..and this is your leading conservative publication?? Waiting……chirp,,chirp, crickets……..painful awkward silence.
Ikefromeli, How’s about keeping it short. i know you’re in love with yourself.
takes one to know one.
sorry, misdirected comment.
Since you’re in love with National Review, here’s what they say about Clinton:
“Patricia Smith, the mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith, has repeatedly accused Hillary Clinton of lying to her about what happened that night. This year at the Republican Convention, Smith’s powerful appearance on stage blaming Clinton for her son’s death was chilling. She says Clinton told her what happened in Benghazi was a response to a video — not a terrorist attack. Since then, we all know Clinton was well aware Benghazi was in fact the latter, as she wrote in an e-mail to her daughter the very night of the attacks. And guess what? Smith isn’t the only one who says she was lied to. Victim Tyrone Woods’ father, Charles Woods, has said the same thing, as did the sister of Glen Doherty, Kate Quigley. Nevertheless, Clinton accused them all of lying about what happened and will no doubt forever more refuse to take responsibility for what happened the night four brave Americans were unnecessarily killed. ”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438567/hillary-clinton-benghazi-patricia-smith-video
TRANSLATION: Lied to family member about the causes of their children’s deaths.
As for the chaos abroad, the Democrats are in see-no-evil denial. The first night in Philadelphia, there were 61 speeches. Not one mentioned the Islamic State or even terrorism. Later references were few, far between, and highly defensive. After all, what can the Democrats say? Clinton’s calling card is experience. Yet as secretary of state she left a trail of policy failures from Libya to Syria, from the Russian reset to the Iraqi withdrawal to the rise of the Islamic State.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/438476/hillary-clintons-2016-campaign-message-is-nonexistent
Translation: Clinton has a demonstrated record of failure as Secretary of State. Expecting her to magically be better as president is idiotic.
“This is a widely acknowledged fact among people who pay attention and aren’t on her payroll. Nearly 20 years ago, New York Times columnist William Safire wrote, “Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation – is a congenital liar.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420963/hillary-clinton-lies-emails-subpoena
Translation: congenital liar– look it up.
Incompetent, corrupt, untruthful—it would make a dandy bumper sticker.
They should say it, it’s a R standard bearer….what is remarkable is how much they repudiate Trump at almost every opportunity.
Thanks for the info Winston
Warren Buffett just went public with a debunking of Donald Trump’s business success. He said that Trump is a fraud.
This is the political equivalent of sinking the Bismarck. No matter how sturdy a ship, if enough shells are lobbed into it, any war ship will eventually sink.
The shelling has started. For those of you how know your WW2 history, insulting a Gold Star family is equivalent to the torpedo that hit the Bismarck’s rudder and steering gear box.
Now rudderless and looking to the absent Luftwaffe for help, as the approaching British fleet loads their main turret guns.
A pattern emerges HiLIARy is a habitual liar, and the thing about habitual liars is that they lie habitually. She certainly proved it when questioned by Chris Wallace. Since Whitewater the lies are never ending. Hillary Clinton is getting hammered for saying on “Fox News Sunday” that FBI Director James Comey confirmed her statements on her email scandal were “truthful” – with one prominent fact-checker giving the claim four “Pinocchios.”
Comparisons, please. Clinton’s only business “success” was in cattle futures where she magically turned a pittance into hundreds of thousands due to insider tips. She’s not even a fraudulent business person. Where’ s the Sage of Omaha’s critique of that or of her blatant influence peddling through foreign and domestic donations to the Clinton foundation or her millions she gained for blabbing to Goldman Sachs or others in the financial industry or her millions in campaign donations from hedge funds.
Bismarck moment: Maybe. However, if Clinton can get past lying to the Benghazi bereaved family members at a funeral about the reason their loved ones died, then Trump can possibly recover from this goof. What ever the case, when it comes to who’s the most fraudulent/corrupt, Clinton wins going away.
Amen, she’s leading her flock of baa baa black sheep to Armageddon.
Mr. Trump is losing by double digits. People are now seeing that he has the attention span of a Beagle.
His loss is going to be spectacular and very welcome!
Klas, don’t disparage beagles so much …..
Ike you gotta keep the cage locked the parrot is loose again.
Crooked Hillary is the Spanish Armada with the slow big ships. Honest Donald is the British Fleet. Quick and nimble.
Quickly sinking and nimbly without a solution.
Agree. Trump’s campaign after his racist attack on the parents of a slain US Muslim soldier who died trying to protect his men is like the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg. Many are currently in denial but soon you will more people, including rats leaving the sinking ship. The question is how long to some people try to stay on the ship before it sinks to the icy bottom of the Atlantic and if they wait to long will be dragged down into the abyss as well. If the Repubs want to try to save their majority in Congress they have to leave the sinking Trump boat now. The Repubs gambled and list regarding not holding hearings to appoint moderate Garland to replace the late Scalia on the Supreme court because when Hillary becomes the next Pres., it will swing to a solid liberal majority. And the die hard Repubs in Congress that continue to support Trump have made themselves incredibly vulnerable for Demos to win their seats. Add to the fact that FoxNews head Ailes got canned for his sick perv moves against female employees and Repubs are in a world of trouble for at least 4 or more years.
All true. Seriously speaking, I think the most interesting point is when and how do they attempt to save the rest of their downstream races. Loyalty to Trump will certainly cost them seats in the House (I think the Senate, at this point, is a foregone conclusion to be turned over to the Ds)–so the tough decision has to be made, on what do we do to save our majority in the house?? Very interesting question for R leadership…..
Notice how they drag this piece of garbage out for days on end? Quite frankly, Mr. Khan’s son is a hero but his father is not. He’s a typical Pakistani opportunist hanging with the Saudis and Clinton. The guy is a phony. He’s going after the wrong guy. He will make millions if Crooked Hillary gets in. Do you want to see camel breath make millions?
Hard to keep down the racism huh, when you’re a bigot all your life, it becomes hard to mask your true emotions and feelings. It’s ok, though,,everyone knew you were a bigot already.
Hey Ike, RABA research has Trump leading by 4 in Virginia, Kaine’s State. Why didn’t you report that?
Ok,ok, I admit it. I don’t like Islamic Terrorists. You happy now? I don’t like Muslims who rape Hindu women. You happy now? If that is being a bigot bring it on.
If Kahn used his son’s heroism-memory for political gain he should be ashamed of himself.
And what about the RABA research Virginia Poll. I’m surprised bsdetection didn’t detect that.
See, don’t you feel much better now that don’t have to hide to everyone that a racist and a bigot are what you are all about. This way you won’t have to waste time pretending to be nice to people of color and whatever race you think, at the moment, you are better than or truly don’t understand.
Let me guess, you are a world traveler, with many cosmopolitan experiences, coupled with a well rounded higher education and that you embrace all cultures to fund the uniqueness within all of them–not.
It figures that you would parrot Mr. Trump’s criticism of that Gold Star family. (After you wrote several times, of course that you wouldn’t do that.) So much for honesty and integrity.
The tactic has been a big winner so far for Mr. Trump, huh? So yes, please digging that hole. Just keep digging.
Nice job of admitting your bigotry. The problem is that your false accusations of terrorism, rape and the rest have nothing to do with the bigotry splashed over the rest of your post. Your accusations toward MR. Khan are more like defamation mixed with a dose of sociopathy and dim-bulbary – all expressed here in black and white for the world to see.
While none of that makes me happy, it does make me laugh.
Well said and analyzed, Tiger. The problem for Les is that he knows deep inside that he is a bigot and a racist. But, in lieu of introspection and potential change, he would prefer that the world and social norms be accepting of his putative and narrow views, so the only way that can happen is if a fascist leader can give him an acceptable reflection in the mirror.
Better be a bigot then a devil worshiper. Check out what Dr Ben Carson has to say about HiLIARy and the devil….Dr Ben Carson raised some eyebrows Tuesday night, when he veered off his prepared remarks at the Republican National Convention to compare Hillary Clinton to Lucifer, by way of a long tangent about the late community organizer Saul Alinsky. Given the opportunity to explain himself the next day, Carson eagerly defended his thesis about their axis of evil by doubling down on the Satan-Clinton connection….http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/ben-carson-clinton-lucifer
I’ll definitely check it out. Looks like I got to fact check everything Ikefromeli says. This is not the first time he leaves the good parts out. Trump beating Kaine in his home state by 4.
You think God cares about these secular elections–is that now your contention?
Ink, tell me about the Virginia poll.How much was Trump beating Hillary again?
Could you perhaps just choose one day next week – only one day – and not be a bigoted buffoon? Just one day?
Nah … that’s too much for you!
See–http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
I like Nate Silver.
The election is over. Thankfully.
Klas, ask inkfromeli about the RABA poll. I never heard of them before. Trump was beating Hillary in Tim Kaine’s backyard by 4? Can’t believe it. She’s spending $50,000,000 to Trumps $100? Whaaaat?
It’s really sad that you don’t understand how the electoral college works.
You need to read more.
Trump is finished.
OMAHA, Neb.—Billionaire investor Warren Buffett lambasted Donald Trump Monday and challenged the Republican nominee to release his tax returns as Democrat Hillary Clinton campaigned for a single, up-for-grabs electoral vote in Nebraska.
At a raucous rally, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive sarcastically mocked Mr. Trump, disputing the New York businessman’s claim that he can’t release his tax returns because of a continuing Internal Revenue Service audit. Mr. Buffett called the GOP nominee’s standoff with the family of a fallen soldier the “final straw” and asked Mr. Trump: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
Mrs. Clinton came to this Republican state, aiming to compete in an Omaha-area congressional district that could deliver one additional electoral vote to the Democratic nominee. Omaha’s best-known billionaire sought to boost Mrs. Clinton’s prospects with an enthusiastic show of support and a scathing critique of her Republican rival.
Mr. Buffett called on Mr. Trump to release his tax records and pledged to do the same, saying he would meet the New York businessman “any place, any time” so both men could field questions about their income-tax returns. Mr. Trump has cited the IRS audit as the reason for breaking with tradition and declining to make his taxes public, but Mr. Buffett said he, too, was under audit but that nothing precluded the release of their returns.
“He’s not afraid because of the IRS,” Mr. Buffett said of Mr. Trump. “He’s afraid because of you.”
Apparently, real deal billionaires detest, fake billionaires like Trump. So from Bill Gates to Buffett to Bloomberg to Zuckerberg (all HRC supporters) they all gave the shaft to Trump. Shoots,,even R billionaires like the Kochs won’t support him…….so,very telling.
Ike, never mind the hogwash. Tell me about the RABA poll again. Trump up by 4 in Tim Kaine Country. I want to hear it from you.
The only support the Benghazi Heros got was lies from Crooked Hillary. What should have been a remembrance was hidden from the public to deceive the American people and perpetuate the cover up of bad judgement and lack of character. And now with manipulation of the press the deception continues. So much so the next POTUS might be Trump. How can Crooked Hillary sleep at night.
My Pillow?
For a million Khan can get you into America, have lunch with Hillary and get you a job in the State Department. No background check required.
For two million, Khan can get you and your wife State Department positions. No background check required.
For Three million he can get your whole family temporary visas.
That’s how they roll in cash that is.
Chris Wallace made pork chops out of Crooked Hillary. Lies was oozing out of every hole.
Who cares what a Fox News commentator says? They have no credibility outside of wingnut fringe. Fox has lost influence steadily and now that Roger “Scumbo” Ailes has imploded, the whole dysfunctional network is falling apart. It’s really laughable.
Who cares what a Fox News commentator says? You got that right it’s about what lying crooked HiLIARy said. Talk about dysfunctional. You take the cake
AP, how long you going to run this smear job?
It’s just the simple truth. And the wingnut propaganda machine can’t handle it. Seen Trump’s poll numbers? Way down. He’s not just going to lose, he’s going to help the Democrats take over the Senate AND the House. Trump’s the best thing that could have happened to HRC and the Dems.
As long as Mr. Trump keeps it alive. He will not let it rest, and neither will you.
Anyone notice that the vast majority of this discussion is about the liberal media and Clinton campaign’s spin? Very few people know the exact words Trump said, but we are all bombarded with what “it” all is supposed to mean in terms of Trumps character. We are being played.
Mike Pence has a very creative defense of Trump’s attacks on the Khan family. He blamed Capt. Kahn’s death in 2004 on the policies of Obama and Clinton.